the author, gordon carrera joins us now. this, well, james bond in, the fictional james bond in this agency has a license to kill. you right that the real mi6 does not? >> well, it doesn't have an official license to kill. i once interviewed the chief of mi6 who works just down the river from where i am now and i said to him, do you have a license to kill? he said no, there is no license to kill. have you ever had one? there was this wonderful pause where he tried to think what the right answer was. i think in the past there might not have been a license to kill but mi6 did look bumping up even leaders of foreign countries like the president of egypt during the suez crisis in 1956. i think swashbuckling days of the past, it was pretty james bond-like, but i'm not quite sure it's the same now. there are a few of the old-timers who use to serve in those days who worry those days are a bit too far behind them and now much more rigorous, accountable organization, too many lawyers and not quite enough james bonds. jon: you write,